About Stringfisher in 2025

Nak / Stringfishermusic Interview – Alpha Wave, Statique Oblique and the Freedom Beyond Streaming

By Wednesday, 2025

Stringfishermusic has always lived between genres, pulling from shoegaze, dream pop and electronic haze. Now the project is breaking itself apart and reforming into something less predictable. For Nak, the Southport-born musician behind Stringfishermusic, this new phase is not just about sound but about noise, accident and imagery.

The latest release, Alpha Wave, is a ninety-minute unbroken work. It refuses the shape of songs entirely, leaning into ambient electronic influence and the raw weight of drones. Following it is Statique Oblique, a project built around found sound and inspired by Nak’s time in France. Together they mark the point where Stringfishermusic stops being only a music project and becomes a wider artistic lens.

Alpha Wave – the first Stringfishermusic long-form ambient release

Alpha Wave lands like a challenge. No singles, no playlists, no safe cuts. Just ninety minutes of sound moving on its own terms.

Q: Alpha Wave feels like a rupture from your earlier work. Why make the break?
A: Because songs are scaffolding. Even when you push against form you are still following invisible rules. With Alpha Wave I stripped that away. It is raw, it is unforgiving, and that is why it worked. I stopped trying to fit it into shape. The sound dictated itself.

Q: Some hear early ambient electronic pioneers in it. Was that the influence?
A: Those records are in me, but I was not chasing them. The influence was the process. Letting drones build, textures pile up, and trusting the piece to find its own gravity. Creativity only works if you let it move. Force it and it dies.

Statique Oblique – found sound and French inspiration

If Alpha Wave was an act of stripping back, Statique Oblique is an act of layering. This next Stringfishermusic project is built from found sound, and shaped by Nak’s time in France.

Q: How does Statique Oblique continue from Alpha Wave?
A: Alpha Wave was me clearing everything out. Statique Oblique is about building again, but with different bricks. France is in it—street sounds, stairwells, fragments of overheard talk. It is not neat or polished. It is alive. That is the point.

Q: Why use found sound as the core?
A: Because the world already makes music if you are listening. Rhythms in footsteps, drones in machines, melodies in scraps of speech. Folding that into Stringfishermusic makes the work breathe. It is about accidents, not polish.

Independence from the platforms

Unlike the earlier Stringfishermusic collection, which was released across Spotify, Apple Music and every major platform, Alpha Wave is not heading to streaming. Nak has chosen to keep this work outside the system.

Q: You put Stringfishermusic on the streaming services, but Alpha Wave you have kept off. Why the change?
A: Because streaming bends everything into the same shape. They want tracks you can skim, neat packages for playlists. Alpha Wave refuses that. Forcing it into that world would kill it. By keeping it off, I can treat it however I want. No rules, no formats, no pretending it is something it is not.

Q: Does that mean fewer people will hear it?
A: Of course. But reach is not the point here. Freedom is. With Stringfishermusic I played the distribution game. With Alpha Wave I proved to myself I could let the process run without trimming it down to please platforms. The people who want it will find it. That is enough.

Visual art, AI portraits and Stringfisher imagery

As the sound expands, so does the image. Stringfisher is not just audio anymore. , Glitch visuals and static-cut videos now sit alongside the music, circulating daily and building their own mythology.

Q: The visuals—Glitch clips, static—how do they fit in?
A: They are not decoration. They are the work. The portraits, the imagery, the video, all carry the same current as the sound. If you take them away you lose part of Stringfisher. It is one project, not separate pieces.

The future of Stringfishermusic

With Alpha Wave out and Statique Oblique in motion, Stringfisher is moving on instinct. It is not chasing algorithms or playlists. It is not waiting for permission.

Q: What comes after Statique Oblique?
A: I do not know. And I like that. It could be another long form ambient piece. It could collapse back into songs. It could go visual or become an installation. Stringfisher goes where it wants. My job is to follow.

Closing thoughts

Alpha Wave was about breaking out of scaffolding. Statique Oblique is about listening to the accidents of the world and folding them into the work. The visuals make it more than music. The refusal to play the streaming game makes it free.

Nak puts it plainly: “Stringfisher is alive because I do not hold it still.”